>As a matter of fact, I was one of the people who spent time demonstrating against the war....
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>Loud applause from New Jersey!
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>LOL!!! I grew up in the 1960's. I was a tie-dyed, fringed, pot-smoking, acid-tripping hippie liberal. Eventually I grew up :) However, I must say that, even today, I believe that the war in Viet Name was a HUGE mistake.

>>Eventually I grew up :)
Many have followed your path.
I recently found one of the most poignant examples in The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(see.. I'm struck back in the late 18th century)
The two brilliant talents .. who met while filled with new artistic ideas and exuberance over the American and French revolutions.. became inseparable friends and colleagues who combined their talents to create poetry that was a revolution of its own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads
As time passed though, Wordsworth became more conservative and disillusioned with the radical ideas while Coleridge, if anything, became more passionate and radical.
(Guess who is my guy???)
They eventually parted and never saw each other again.